Professor Joanne Braxton, the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of the Humanities, to go to Turkey

William and Mary faculty member Joanne Braxton has been invited to
join the annual pilgrimage in December of this year as writer in residence on a
multi-faith immersion study organized by the Starr King School for the Ministry
and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Braxton, the
Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of the Humanities, is a published
poet and a graduate of Yale University and the Pacific School of Religion. Dr.
Braxton is active in campus ministry and serves as faculty advisor to the
William and Mary I-Faith organization, a multi-religious organization devoted
to inter-religious dialogue, multi-faith understanding and civic engagement.